Resources on Family/Home Organization

Checklists
Organize your home and your family with free printable checklists. Checklist topics include preparing for a garage sale, gardener's landscaping checklists, grocery shopping checklists, house cleaning checklists, carbon monoxide poisoning prevention checklists, lost pet checklists, multiple insurance policy checklists, as well as checklists for parenting, children and education, fun, special occasions, business and finance, internet and more.

Home and Family Organizer
Smart home managers tackle time management and goal setting with the help of an all-in-one calendar, scheduling and information retrieval tool. Whether it's called a family organizer, a household notebook or family notebook, this simple idea saves time, cuts stress, and enhances communication in any-sized family or household. A household notebook "command central" for an entire family. While each family's organizer will be unique, most are simple three-ring notebooks with several divider sections. The books include a telephone and message section, a divider for church, clubs or volunteer activities, travel, home management and finance sections, medical information, and personal records like gift list and clothing size charts. Visit to learn how to create your own organized home notebook. Printable basic organizer forms, divider sections for tips and ideas are also offered.

Get Organized
The whole family can get organized with different ideas such as storage solutions, clutter busters, family management organizers, and kids information centers. Site includes photos and directions for using various storage solutions, such as a CD rack tower, kids' room table, personalized storage boxes and a space-saver organizer. Clutter buster section includes information about coat, hat and glove boxes, handy hangers, simple shelves, storage benches and more. Information center has tips for in-out boxes, kitchen organizing, letterboxes and more. The family manager section includes information about a book and magazine organizer, a home key organizer, a kitchen cleaning caddy and a work bench - all that can help your family stay organized.

Moving Tips
This website presents tips for making an organized move. When it comes to relocation, it's important to organize your house and belongings. Making a list and keep simple files. Create a labeling system, too. Getting enough boxes for the move is required, as is making sure you have enough moving supplies. Keep boxes light, and utilize wardrobe boxes to help move comforters, linens, pillows and blankets. Site also includes tips for color coding your move and strategizing with your movers to set up box arrival timing.

S.H.E.'s Organized
S.H.E.'s Organized is one of the most comprehensive organizational sites on the web, incorporating the Sidetracked Home Executive household management system. Read the original 21 articles that helped lay the foundation for the S.H.E.'s organized household management system. First published in 1991, S.H.E.'s 21 Essays, which cover the heart and soul of the S.H.E. organizational system have been emailed to more than a quarter of a million people, and you can read all 21 Essays on this site. There's also a very informative Q&A section along with a forum board where you can exchange ideas and opinions and ask questions of the thousands of S.H.E. followers worldwide.

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